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I give Libertyland five stars and kudos to a master storyteller."
About Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education (University of California Press)
"Tearing Down the Gates" is about educational injustice. In recognizing this book, the AACU is also recognizing that the core of our very democracy depends on our nation providing equal access to a liberal education for all citizens."
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“In its strategic plan, “Aim High—and Make Excellence Inclusive,” AAC&U makes clear that the true promise of liberal education can only be fulfilled if we grapple with just the issues Sacks so powerfully describes in Tearing Down the Gates. He believes it could serve as a blueprint for how, many years later, to overthrow American democracy in favor of the 1%.
Voice, Washington, D.C., featured speaker.
Portland Rethinking Schools, featured speaker.
Parents United for Responsible Education and other sponsoring groups, keynote speaker, Chicago.
Salem State College, "How Educational Policy Harms Teaching and Learning," featured speaker to faculty and students.
Maryville University, St.
Louis, featured speaker.
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, keynote address to the Preparing Future Faculty Project.
Pepperdine University, "Teaching and Learning in the Postmodern Age," keynote address.
Peter Sacks is an author, economist, essayist and social critic.
"Receiving the Ness Award from the AACU is a great honor for me,” said author Peter Sacks.
As a newspaper journalist, Sacks covered business and economics and completed several awarding-winning journalism projects, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
In Tearing Down the Gates, author Peter Sacks analyzes the growing divide between rich and poor in America.
MassParents, Cambridge, Mass., featured speaker.
D.C. Review of Books: "[Libertyland] is an electrifying and delightful experience for readers."
Charles Ray, author: "Libertyland by Peter Sacks is a riveting story of good versus evil in which it becomes difficult to identify who the good guys are at times.
Recent award winners include Our Underachieving Colleges by Derek Bok, Saving Higher Education in the Age of Money by James Engell and Anthony Dangerfield, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education by Martha Nussbaum, and Idealism and Liberal Education by James O.
Freedman.
AAC&U is the leading national association concerned with the quality, vitality, and public standing of undergraduate liberal education. Sacks addresses one of our nation’s most pressing challenges—providing educational opportunity to all students, including those from low-income backgrounds,” said Ness review committee member Robert Sternberg.
However, Garrick's enormous ego fools him into thinking that Suzanne's parody should be taken seriously. The narrative is a rollercoaster of political intrigue and action-packed sequences that will have you on the edge of your seat."
U.S. He taught college journalism and writing for four years.
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Nor does he let history get in the way of a good story that will keep you on the edge of your seat from page one to the stunning conclusion.Sacks, an essayist and social critic is also the author of Standardized Minds: The High Price Of America’s Testing Culture And What We Can Do To Change It (Da Capo Press, 1999).
This year’s Ness award winner was selected by a committee of higher education leaders, including Robert Sternberg (chair), dean of Arts & Sciences, Tufts University; Mildred Garcia, president, Cal State-Dominguez Hills; Andrew Delbanco, professor, Columbia University; and Dwight Smith, vice president of academic affairs of Saint Louis Community College at Forest Park.
He is also the author of STANDARDIZED MINDS: THE HIGH PRICE OF AMERICA’S TESTING CULTURE AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO CHANGE IT, (Perseus Publishing). His investigation to clear his name leads to a secret society of Libertarian billionaires who will stop at nothing in order to create a brutal society of pure capitalism.
Suzanne Dreyfus and Garrick Cripps had a passionate romance during their undergraduate years at MIT.
On a lark, Suzanne writes The Liberation Manifesto, a wicked satire of right-wing libertarian philosophy. But Sacks does this all without preaching. But for the revolution to begin, Garrick and his cronies know that an inciting event, like a Stateside terrorist attack, is needed to convince the public that drastic change in leadership is necessary.
Society of American Law Teachers, New York University School of Law, plenary session presenter.
Florida Association of Nursing Educators, Tampa, featured speaker.
Indian River Community College, featured speaker.
Seattle Rethinking Schools, panelist.
Education Writers Association, annual meeting, Atlanta, conference presenter, "Will High-Stakes Testing Doom Minority Children to Sanctions?"
Teachers College, Columbia University, "High-Stakes Testing: What are the Effects?" conference presenter.